Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques
480 pages | Adobe Press; 1 edition (March 20, 2009) | 0321613104 | PDF | 24 Mb
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques has been completely updated to cover new features in CS4. In a friendly, easy style that is both long and short on information about the techno-babble, Photoshop Hall of Famer Ben Willmore and photographer Dan Ablan guide you through the concepts and features that will really make a difference in the way of use Photoshop every day. They take you from blindly following step by step instructions to a deep understanding of how Photoshop works, cutting through the fat to focus on what they consider the essential features of Photoshop. This full-color book offers all the content in three easily digestible sections: Working Foundations, Production Essentials, and creative explorations.
Streamlined for this edition, the book is distilled Photoshop's vast capabilities down to what you need to know to a complete understanding of the program, while simultaneously focusing more directly on best practices for photographers. Beginning with a quick "refresher course" on the basis of work in Photoshop, you go to the real, the techniques of world production. Finally, get to fully explore the creative potential of the mixture of Photoshop and enhancing images, creating collages, retouching photographs, colorizing, and working with filters and layer masks. Upon finishing this book, creativity and efficiency levels will soar and you will feel like you finally "get" Photoshop.
480 pages | Adobe Press; 1 edition (March 20, 2009) | 0321613104 | PDF | 24 Mb
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques has been completely updated to cover new features in CS4. In a friendly, easy style that is both long and short on information about the techno-babble, Photoshop Hall of Famer Ben Willmore and photographer Dan Ablan guide you through the concepts and features that will really make a difference in the way of use Photoshop every day. They take you from blindly following step by step instructions to a deep understanding of how Photoshop works, cutting through the fat to focus on what they consider the essential features of Photoshop. This full-color book offers all the content in three easily digestible sections: Working Foundations, Production Essentials, and creative explorations.
Streamlined for this edition, the book is distilled Photoshop's vast capabilities down to what you need to know to a complete understanding of the program, while simultaneously focusing more directly on best practices for photographers. Beginning with a quick "refresher course" on the basis of work in Photoshop, you go to the real, the techniques of world production. Finally, get to fully explore the creative potential of the mixture of Photoshop and enhancing images, creating collages, retouching photographs, colorizing, and working with filters and layer masks. Upon finishing this book, creativity and efficiency levels will soar and you will feel like you finally "get" Photoshop.
